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"Queen to open St Pancras station" today
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, John Rowland wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, John Rowland wrote: Pyromancer wrote: Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as John Rowland gently breathed: That is a terrible reason to make a road one-way. Suppose that you lived at the north end of Judd Street and visited your girlfriend in Chalton Street regularly - would you still think that the above constituted a good reason to make Judd Street s/b only? But should you be using a motor vehicle for such a short trip anyway? That depends on the time of day, how much stuff you have to bring, whether you've got 4000 pounds in your pocket, whether you're a national hate figure etc. Or maybe you're delivery man who has to make deliveries at Judd St and Chalton Street. We should get a count of the number of such people, and of the number of people coming south out of Midland Road and wanting to turn right, so that we can do a cost-benefit analysis. So we should ban every possible human action unless enough voters want to do it? What? What i'm implying is that the number of people inconvenienced by making Judd St one-way (those burdened with freight, cash, infamy, etc) would be smaller than the number of people convenienced (those heading east from Midland Rd). If that's true, or rather if, taking into account the degree of conveniencing and inconveniencing, the net convenience is positive, then making Judd St one-way would be a Good Thing. Perhaps it's not, and it seems likely that it's not a big deal either way, and in either of those cases, it would be a Bad Thing, or at least a Meh Thing. It all depends on the actual numbers. Are you a New Labour cabinet member by any chance? You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment. tom -- Everyone in the world is doing something without me. |
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Tom Anderson wrote:
What i'm implying is that the number of people inconvenienced by making Judd St one-way (those burdened with freight, cash, infamy, etc) would be smaller than the number of people convenienced (those heading east from Midland Rd). If that's true, or rather if, taking into account the degree of conveniencing and inconveniencing, the net convenience is positive, then making Judd St one-way would be a Good Thing. Perhaps it's not, and it seems likely that it's not a big deal either way, and in either of those cases, it would be a Bad Thing, or at least a Meh Thing. No, it wouldn't be a Meh thing. Introducing new legal restrictions which will make it harder for people to just do what they like should only be done as a last resort if the arguments for it are compelling. Pedestrians are presumably more likely to be run over in one-way roads (I take a few of them out every time I drive past Camden Lock) and even for aware pedestrians, crossing a one way road is more difficult than crossing a 2-way road of the same width. Judd Street contains the HQ of the RNIB and so possibly has more blind pedestrians than any other road in Britain. Anyone who misunderstands the signs on a one-way road is quite likely to have a head-on collision. Councils in Central London cannot be trusted to sign one way roads properly. For example, it was possible to turn right from Guilford St into Herbrand Street and then left into Bernard St (which is supposed to be one way the other way) without passing any prohibition signs. The signs weren't removed, they just hadn't been put up. Hopefully they've fixed it since I told them about it, but since they're a Labour council, maybe not. (I've spent 3 months or so trying to get an answer from Islington about the death trap that they or TfL have recently created at Angel, and I believe someone who doesn't speak a word of English would get a free house out of them quicker.) The same lethal lack of signage occurs at Hoxton Square, West Square, Victoria Square etc etc etc. This problem doesn't seem to happen in the suburbs. It's as if the road network in Zone 1 is so dense and confusing that even TPTB can't keep track of which roads are one-way and which roads are two-way. Anyway, you still haven't given a single reason why traffic shouldn't turn left from Judd St into Euston Road. |
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (John Rowland) wrote: Judd Street I have a feeling that Camden had a scheme to restrict traffic in Judd St. Must ask the work colleague who is a Camden Councillor what happened to it. you can't do a right turn to Euston Road from Upper Woburn Place Can't you go ahead, right, right and left to achieve that? I believe so. That adds 1 mile to the current journey, and an extra five sets of traffic lights, I think. It would be better to go via Mabledon Place and Ossulston Street. None of these difficulties would trouble you on a bike of course. :-) Not unless they made the pavement one-way too. |
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"Queen to open St Pancras station" today
On 8 Nov, 02:08, "John Rowland"
wrote: Pyromancer wrote: Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as John Rowland gently breathed: That is a terrible reason to make a road one-way. Suppose that you lived at the north end of Judd Street and visited your girlfriend in Chalton Street regularly - would you still think that the above constituted a good reason to make Judd Street s/b only? Bear in mind that there no left turn out of Mabledon Place, and you can't get out Dukes Road either, and I don't think the right turn from Tavistock Place to Tavistock Sq is allowed, and you can't do a right turn to Euston Road from Upper Woburn Place or Gordon Street. But should you be using a motor vehicle for such a short trip anyway? That depends on the time of day, how much stuff you have to bring, whether you've got 4000 pounds in your pocket, whether you're a national hate figure etc. Or maybe you're delivery man who has to make deliveries at Judd St and Chalton Street. Or you live in Judd Street and car-pool with someone who lives in Chalton Street. I've got to say those just aren't good enough reasons in my book to prevent a road becoming one-way. If they were then there'd be no one- way streets, prohibited turns or other traffic restrictions anywhere in any town, and traffic would grind to a complete shuddering halt. I find the inclusion of 'national hate figure' in that list quite bizarre too! |
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